“could still believe in their possible presence; for memory was now set in motion;” — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.” — Marcel Proust Escape Copy Share Image
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. — Marcel Proust Memories Copy Share Image
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Glutton Copy Share Image
“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.” — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention… — Marcel Proust Parties Copy Share Image
“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.” — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them,… — Marcel Proust Drugs Copy Share Image
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me… — Marcel Proust Affection Copy Share Image
“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring… — Marcel Proust Botticelli Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“even when a political truth is enshrined in written documents, it is seldom that these have any more value than a radiographic… — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
“Alas, it was in vain that I implored the dungeon-keep of Roussainville, that I begged it to send out to meet me… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“Oh, my poor little hawthorns,” I was assuring them through my sobs, “it is not you that want to make me unhappy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.” — Marcel Proust Joy Copy Share Image
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